The Dighton Tricentennial Parade will kick off this Saturday at 10 a.m. in honor of the town’s 300th anniversary of its founding.

With the theme “March of Time,” the parade will be separated into eight divisions covering the history of Dighton: public officials, veterans, Native Americans, colonists, shipbuilding, farming, business and industry and modern times.

The parade will consist of three marching bands, four colonial military units, a colonial navy unit, six floats, clowns and unicyclists, among others, according to Colette McKeon, chair of the Tricentennial Committee.

“It should be very entertaining,” McKeon said. “...The excitement has been building. All of our other events have drawn a good crowd, so I hope this does, too.”

The parade will begin at the corner of Main Street and Elm Street, travel down Elm Street and onto Somerset Avenue and end at the Dighton Elementary School.

“Elm Street is the ’Old Bristol Path,’ and that’s an important reason for the route to be there,” McKeon said. “The Old Bristol Path was one of the earliest traveled roads in Dighton.”

Parking for the parade will be available at Sweets Knoll State Park, in front of the Bristol County Agricultural High School barn on Somerset Avenue, the Dighton Community Church, Advance Looseleaf Technologies, on Arrowhead Drive off of Somerset Avenue and on side streets off of Elm Street such as Brook Street and Mockingbird Lane.

“The parade will be followed by a town picnic at the pavilion behind Town Hall,” McKeon added.

The picnic will consist of hot dogs, hamburgers and drinks and will coincide with the Dighton Intertribal Indian Council’s annual Council Oak Powwow taking place at the same time on the field behind Town Hall.

The parade is expected to run from 10 a.m. to noon, and the picnic — expected to run from noon to 2 p.m. — will commence immediately following the conclusion of the parade.

The Grand Marshal for the parade will be Francis Torres, who served as a selectmen from 1959 to 1974, a tenure that coincided with the town’s 250th celebrations in 1962.

McKeon said that any children in Dighton who want to be in the parade can join on Saturday in the modern times division assembling at the Spanish Church of God on Main Street.